Updated 04 June 2024
On Display Permanent collection
Saint Praxedis
Materials and Techniques | Oil on canvas |
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Size(cm) | 101.6 x 82.6 |
Inscriptions | Signed and dated lower left: Meer 1655 |
Credit Line | Deposit from Kufu Company Inc. |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | DEP.2014-0001 |
Provenance
Erna and Jacob Reder, New York, 1943; With Spencer Samuels & Co., New York, 1969; The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, by whom acquired from the above in 1987; Sold at Christie's London, 8 July 2014, lot 39; Deposited from Kufu Company Inc. to the NMWA, 2014.
Exhibition History
- 1969
- Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 0 1969 - 0 1969, no. 39, pp. 22, 44-45, illustrated as Ficherelli.
- 1984
- Inaugural Exhibition, Spencer A. Samuels Gallery, New York, 0 1984 - 0 1984, no. 14, as by Vermeer
- 1990
- Opus Sacrum: Catalogue of the Exhibition from the Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, The Royal Castle, Warsaw, 0 1990 - 0 1990, no. 48, pp. 11, 272-277, illustrated, as by Vermeer
- 1991
- Jan Vermeer van Delft, St. Praxedis: An Exhibition of a Painting from the Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, International Cultural Centre and the Wawel Royal Castle, Cracow, 0 May 1991 - 0 September 1991, pp. 8-28, as by Vermeer
- 1995
- Johannes Vermeer, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 12 November 1995 - 11 February 1996, The Mauritshuis, the Hague, 1 March-2 June 1996, no. 1, pp. 86-89, as by Vermeer
- 1998
- Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675): Sainte Praxedis, Musée de la Chapelle de la Visitation, Monaco, 0 1998 - 0 1998, pp. 4-37, as by Vermeer
- 2012
- Vermeer: Il secolo d'oro dell'arte olandese, Scuderia del Quirinale, Rome, 27 September 2012 - 20 January 2013, no. 45a, as by Vermeer
- 2023
- Vermeer, Rijksmuseum, 10 February 2023 - 4 June 2023, cat. no. 2
Bibliography
- 1968
- Kühn, Hermann. A study of the pigments and grounds used by Jan Vermeer. Report and Studies in the History of Art. vol. 2. 1968, pp. 154-202.
- 1969
- Kitson, M. Current and forthcoming exhibitions: Florentine Baroque Art in New York. The Burlington Magazine. vol. 111, June 1969, p. 410, as by Vermeer.
- 1974
- Hannema, D. Nieuws over Johannes Vermeer van Delft. Enkele mededelingen. 1974-75, p. 22, illustrated p. 30.
- 1975
- Blankert, Albert. Johannes Vermeer van Delft 1632-1675. 1975, p. 112, no. 5.
- 1976
- Wright, C. Vermeer. London, 1976, p. 7, fig. 3, as 'attributed to Vermeer'.
- 1978
- D. Hannema, "Problemen rondom Vermeer van Delft". Boymans Bijdragen. Ebbinge, J. C., ed. Rotterdam, 1978, p. 95, illustrated p. 6.
- 1978
- Blankert, Albert. Vermeer of Delft: Complete Edition of the Paintings. Oxford, Phaidon, 1978, p. 75, note no. 13, as a copy after Ficherelli.
- 1986
- Aillaud, G.; Blankert, Albert; Montias, John Michael. Vermeer. Paris, Hazan, 1986 (reprinted Amsterdam, 1992), p. 163, note no. 5.
- 1986
- Wheelock, Aethur K. Jr. Saint Praxedis: new light on the early career of Vermeer. Artibus et Historiae, no. 14, 1986, pp. 71-89, figs. 1,3-4, 7-13, 15-16, 19-20, as by Vermeer.
- 1987
- Richard, P. Trying to verify a Vermeer. International Herald Tribune. 25:18, 1987, p. 18, illustrated.
- 1988
- Wheelock, Aethur K. Jr. Vermeer. New York, Abrams, 1988, pp. 8, 13, 50-51, pl. 2, as by Vermeer.
- 1989
- Montias, John Michael. Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1989, pp. 140-143, 146, fig. 17.
- 1991
- Jan Vermeer van Delft: St. Praxedis (exh. cat.). The Wawel Royal Castle, Cracow, May-September 1991. 1991, as by Vermeer.
- 1992
- Chong, W. Johannes Vermeer: Gezicht op Delft. Bloemendaal, 1992, pp. 21, 89, no. 23.
- 1992
- Blankert Albert; Montias, John Michael; Aillaud, Gilles; Ruurs, Rob; Watering, Willem L van de. Vermeer. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1992, p. 163, no. 5.
- 1992
- Liedtke, Walter. "Vermeer teaching himself". Rembrandt Och Hans Tid, Rembrandt and His Age (exh. cat.). The Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2 October 1992-6 January 1993. [1992], pp. 96, 104-105, nos. 37-38, illustrated p. 96, fig. 3, as possibly by Vermeer.
- 1993
- Broos, B. Intimacies and Intrigues. History Painting in the Mauritshuis, The Hague/ Ghent, 1993, p. 314, no. 41, as possibly the 'missing link' between Christ in the House of Mary and Martha and Diana and her Companions.
- 1993
- Weber, Gregor J. M. Antoine Dézallier d'Argenville unf fünf Künstler namens Jan van der Meer. Oud Holland. vol. 107, no.3, 1993, p. 301, fig. 7, as Jan van der Meer of Utrecht.
- 1993
- Montias, J. M. Vermeer en zijn milieu. Baarn, 1993, pp. 162-163, illustrated p. 17.
- 1995
- Wheelock, Arthur K. Jr. Vermeer & the Art of Painting. New Haven/ London, Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 7, 20-27, 29, 34, 36, 113, 163, 169, illustrated p. 20, pl. 8, as by Vermeer.
- 1995
- Wright, C. Vermeer: Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1995, as possibly by Vermeer.
- 1996
- Van Eck, X. Exhibition reviews: Vermeer in The Hague. Apollo, vol. 148, no. 411, May 1996, p. 47, as 'hotly disputed'.
- 1996
- Franits, Wayne. "Vermeer, Johannes". The Dictionary of Art. Turner, Jane, ed. vol, 32, New York, Grove, 1996, p. 262, 'the controversial Saint Praxedis also testifes to Vermeer's exposure to Italian art'.
- 1996
- Brown, Christopher. Exhibition review: Washington ant the Hague, Vermeer. The Burlington Magazine. vol. 138, no. 1117, April 1996, p. 281- 282, fig. 75, as attributed to Vermeer, with reservations.
- 1998
- Bok, Marten Jan. "Not to be confused with the sphinx of Delft: the Utrecht Painter Johannes van der Meer (Schipluiden 1630-1695/ 1697 Vreeswijk?)". Vermeer Studies: Studies in the History of Art, 55, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers 33. Gaskell, Ivan; Jonker, Michiel, eds. New Haven/ London, 1998, pp. 67-68, 75, 79, as probably Italian, not by van der Meer or Vermeer.
- 1998
- Broos, Ben. "Vermeer: malice and misconception". Vermeer Studies: Studies in the History of Art, 55, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers 33. Gaskell, Ivan; Jonker, Michiel, eds. New Haven/ London, 1998, p. 30, as 'the latest wrongly attributed Vermeer'.
- 1998
- Wheelock, A. Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675): Sainte Praxedis (exh. cat.). Musée de la Chapelle de la Visitation, Monaco. 1998, pp. 5-34, as by Vermeer.
- 1998
- Wadum, Jørgen. "Contours of Vermeer". Vermeer Studies: Studies in the History of Art, 55, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers 33. Gaskell, Ivan; Jonker, Michiel, eds. New Haven/ London, 1998
- 2000
- Liedtke, W. A View of Delft: Vermeer and His Contemporaries. Zwolle, 2000, p. 197, as not by Vermeer.
- 2001
- The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer. Frantis, Wayne E., ed. Cambridge/ New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 'the controversial Saint Praxedis'.
- 2001
- W. Liedtke, Vermeer and the Deflt School (exh. cat.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 8 March-27 May 2001. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, pp. 581-582, no. 87, as probably Florentine.
- 2012
- Buvelot, Quentin. Exhibition: Vermeer and Dutch painting. The Burlington Magazine. vol. 154, no. 1317, December 2012, p. 873.
- 2023
- Vermeer (exh.cat.). Pieter Roelofs; Weber, Gregor J.M. et al. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 2023, pp. 7, 17, 32, 123, 126, 128-130, 136, 274, cat. no. 2, col. repr.